
Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: Don’t give PGC fee power
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Aug. 14, 2026 edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
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Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Aug. 14, 2026 edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.

James Neely has no problem with stocked trout. He just doesn’t want them in wild trout streams.
A lifelong outdoorsman who lives in McKean County, Neely said it’s time for Pennsylvania to rethink its

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in late July celebrated the addition of two forest tracts in Potter and Schuylkill counties into the national Old-Growth Forest Network: Ole Bull State Park in Potter

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is ramping up a pilot program with the eventual goal to afford hunters across the state the opportunity to test their own deer for chronic wasting disease.
The program is
Pennsylvania game commissioners, at their July 10 quarterly meeting, approved the following land acquisitions:

The recent landmark Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision – ruling that warrantless searches of private property by state game wardens and state waterways conservation officers violate the state Constitution – may have far-reaching consequences.
The

Just a few days after the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission put the finishing touch on its plan to create a trophy catfish fishery in the state’s western rivers, the agency again stocked thousands of

Fishing is better: bass, panfish hitting in most waters. Here’s the Pennsylvania fishing report across the state on Aug. 6, 2026.

Spring drumming surveys from the states that still conduct such surveil lance indicate a slight decline from last year, following the traditional eight- to 11-year cyclical pattern. Here’s a closer look at what primary ruffed
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